Sentences with phrase «who send their children to any religious school»

This idea would probably sound odd to parents who send their children to any religious school — whether Catholic, Jewish, or evangelical — since character building is one of the foundations of the education excellence these institutions pride themselves on.

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Children and parents should not suffer because they choose to send their child to a religious or independent school - the rights and needs of a student at one of these schools should be treated as equally as those of a child who attends public school.

Most Council members had two unstated reasons for supporting Greenfield in using tax money to fund religious schools: they either have constituents who would like their choice to send their children to these schools to be further subsidized or they want to buy themselves good will with the increasingly powerful and cohesive blocs of Orthodox, fundamentalist, and Catholic voters should they decide to seek higher office.

The show, set on Manhattan's Upper West Side, follows six Jewish singles as they juggle social, religious, and communal pressures on their journey to finding that ever - elusive true love — or at least someone who would agree on what type of school to send their future children to.

It is still possible that adults who attended religious schools have more favorable attitudes toward Jews because of unobserved advantages but this seems unlikely given that the generally more advantaged families who send children to non-religious private schools do not appear to yield lower anti-Semitism.

And we do not typically think of families who choose to send their children to mostly Christian religious schools as doing so because of a particular affinity toward Jews.

The voucher program works like this: Taxpayer subsidies go to lower - and middle - income parents who choose to send their children to private and religious schools.

Absent from the trip were teacher's groups and others in Florida who criticize the tax credit scholarship program for diverting needed funding from the public schools to send children to private, often religious, schools that don't have to meet state standards.

Ms. DeVos, a staunch supporter of vouchers who attended and sent her children to religious schools, said the decision affirmed that «religious discrimination in any form can not be tolerated in a society that values the First Amendment.»

What of the claims for equality of treatment of those parents who, because of religious scruples, can not send their children to public schools?

Yet, there are many families who enjoy sending their children to religious schools regardless if the families have the same religious beliefs.